Glue

I used one of the glue project ideas from the Pinterest board I posted the other dayand ended up with this pretty lily. I printed out a free stained glass template from this website, put a sheet of printer paper over it and traced the outlines with Elmer's glue then let it try overnight. Next morning I painted inside the lines with watercolors and viola! a pretty, wrinkly mess.

Another fun glue technique is rubber cement resist painting, which is what Jeremy did with his Colorado landscape. The basic idea is to drizzle your surface with rubber cement, allow it to dry and then paint over it with watercolors. After the paint dries you can rub the glue off and it leaves a really pretty, arty (artsy? artish?) effect.

In the Sky

I've been wanting to learn how to paint or draw clouds for awhile, so I set up this prompt on purpose. After a little searching I decided on this method and, after a few fails, I came up with one that I didn't mind posting. After it dried I unceremoniously stuck it in my journal with some double-sided tape and called it a day. ​

Jeremy's is STUNNING, in my completely unbiased opinion. He started with some handmade paper that is full of texture and meticulously taped off the sections he didn't want painted. He covered those bare spots with gesso (with a few extra sprinkles and dots for stars and a planet) and then colored over it them colored pencil. I absolutely love how this turned out.

How are you feeling about your pages? Remember that you can save the image in my sidebar with the list of prompts and play along at Instagram. Use the hashtags #revival_designs and #artjournalchallenge so I can find your posts.